St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-18
RUBBING ELETHEN UP.
Elder Stewart Returns 10 the At
tack With Vigor.

To the Editor of the Globe.
In the Minneapolis Tribune of May -
it will be noticed that Mr.. Blethen again
occupies the position of a SQuirming eel
on Il frying fork, and is trying i'll vain
by his writings to escade from the sharp
piercing fork tines and the roasting.
And that in response to my challenge TO
show any dishonesty or irTegularity on
my part i'll the acquisition OF any OF my
property, and TO my Offer to give all
such lands to charitable institutions and
to give him individually 81 eco fer every
such piece he could find; and also to
give him so for every G0llar he could
discover that had ever taken unjustly
from any one, and as an answer thereto
he says: Though thrice millionaire.
it is said the elder don't even replace the
habiliments OF his lower limbs 0ftener
than once III fifteen years Well. that
IS as pertinent and is as much to the
point, and is as much an answer to my
criticisms and offers to him, and eXilib-
its and demonstrates his immense brain,
his towering intellect, his mental caliber
and weight of metal, and the exceeding
excellence i'll fine literary efforts ac-
Quired by him some thirty or
forty years ago by many years
of persistent effort as pedagOguc
in keeping the common town schools i'll
the back settlements in Maine. fully as
clearly and creditably, as anything he
has written since the beginning of Our
C0nfab. \ short time ago. it will be re-
membered, Mr.. Blethen was much wCr-
ried because did not wear an oVercOat
regularly in the winter time; and now
his kind heart blecdS because | do not
wear underclotheS in the summer time.
The absence of the 0vercOat, suppose.
could be detected even in his blessed
eyes, but it is more difficult to SurmiSe
just how he discovered the lack of the
underclothes. But if Mr.. Blethen Lad
taken the trouble to constitute himselfa
smelling committee (and as smell
maker it is universally conceded that he
OutrankS everybody and everything, llv-
ing OF dead, above ground or below it,
and had interviewed anybody who had
kept My house or had access to my
wardrobes, at any time for the last
twenty years, he would easily have
learned that have had all of that time
enough of the best undertaking on
hand to last me at least 100 years, even
if | had as much bad blood as he has
and was constrained, like him. to keep
it as tllickly covered and concealed by
UmderclotheS winter and summer. And
lie would also have learned at the same
time that | have in my wardrObeS more
fine, costly clothes Gncluding four over
coats, one of which cost $50. another $50,
third Sl00,and fourth one upon which
the fur alone cost $780, than Mr.. Blethen
will probably have the satisfaction of
swelling under and displaying on his
miS-Shapen anatomy between his cradle
and his coffin. But my habits in regard
to wearing clothes are somewhat differ
ent from Mr.. Blethcn'S. do not strut
and swagger round wearing on my
back every day all | am worth
in theCWorld above my debts and
also all my too credulous creditors can
be inycigled into trusting me with. Mr..
Blethen says (suppoSing it would annoy
me) that am about 20 years old. But if
Mr.. Blethen will kindly practically eX-
pertinent little on his own account. |
reckon he will be thoroughly convinced
that the Home Baptist muscles are alto
gether too good to have ever seen even
50 years yet.
Mr.. Blethen is greatly elated at the
/ thought that some time or other | shall
pass in my checks. Well, not in time to
do him any good. ] shall be here plenty
long enough TO teach him lesson he
| little dreamed of and will not forget and
will not relish, and much longer after
he has left the city and is dead and for
gotten, or remembered only to be de-
tested, than | was here before he came
He also takes great comfort in the be-
lief that when | do light out it will be in
| the direction and over the road on which
he holds a free pass, and which, for the
benefit of the world and the credit OF
the state of Maine and of the Blethen
family, he ought to have used at least
~,
there isn't respectable person in the
world who knows Mr.. Blethen, especially
those who have been compelled by the
curse of circumstances to live with hin
in the same house, but what would in
finitely prefer to go to a first-class ortho
dOX hell without him than to HEAVIER
with him. l.. NJ. STEWART.